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Word: fashion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coxswain, by his skylarking! Look, he gave me his picture in an admiral's uniform." George V, still mindful of the fact that he was eleven years at sea with the Royal Navy, and once commanded H. M. S. Meiampus, wears his trousers creased down the side, sailor fashion, to this day (see cut). As a "midshipmite" he wore a smart sea jacket, carried a small ivory-handled dirk, emblem of the fact that he was neither an enlisted man nor yet an officer privileged to wear a sword. As British midshipmen still do, he always car ried when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sprats and the Coxswain | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Manhattan's Grand Central Palace was filled, last week, with the Architectural and Allied Arts Exposition, a giant fashion show displaying (April 15-27) the latest modes in which man adorns the earth for his comfort and amusement. Dominant was the 44th exhibition of the Architectural League of New York. But since architecture is more than, ever a synthesis of many elements - pure design, clients' specifications, construction engineering, interior decorating, landscape architecture, plumbing - much of the space was devoted to the Allied Arts. The architectural gamut ran through garages, houses, churches, public buildings, reached a skyward climax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Architecture Galore | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Similarly based on the Swiss code is the new civil law imposed on Turkey by Dictator-President Mustafha Kemal Pasha (TIME, Feb. 21, 1927). *Egyptian Prince Sabit Bey divorced himself in this convenient fashion from Mrs. Jean Nash, famed "Best Dressed Woman in the World," after they had been wed for a whole month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Swiss Laws, Greek Patriarch | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

There was really little more to say, though Mr. Lloyd George declaimed in masterly fashion for over an hour, concluding: "There are people who are saying we will not be in a position to fulfill this pledge [to end unemployment]. Of one thing I am not in doubt?we shall be in a position to compel its fulfillment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Election | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...well as the infamous have apologists. Baudelaire, who was a little of both, has had many. The greatest were Arthur Symons and James Huneker who adored him with exquisite words. The least lyric and most informative was Eugene Crépet. The latest is the sympathetic Francois Porché. He, the fashion of many easy-going raphers, did little more than rewrite in better prose and form the Crépet biography. But his dedication gracefully admits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tip of the WIng | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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